12: 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman conceive seed, and bear a man-child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of the 50impurity of her sickness shall she be unclean.
50Or, separation Also in vs. 5.
12: 3 And 51in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
51The blood-clotting factor, Vitamin K, is not produced in a baby’s intestinal tract until the 5th to 7th day of life, and the necessary prothrombin is maximum on the 8th day of life. S.I. McMillen, “None of These Diseases;” Old Tappan, NJ: F. Revell, 1963, p. 20f.
12: 4 And she shall continue in the blood of her purifying thirty-three days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled.
12: 5 But if she bear a maid-child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her impurity; and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying sixty-six days.
12: 6 And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb a year old for a burnt-offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtle-dove, for a sin-offering, unto the door of the tent of meeting, unto the priest:
12: 7 and he shall offer it before Jehovah, and make atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood. This is the law for her that beareth, whether a male or a female.
12: 8 And if her means suffice not for a lamb, then she shall take two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons; the one for a burnt-offering, and the other for a sin-offering: and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.
